[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a sound of rustling paper and someone muttering about how Kuma-chan is wrong that kanji SO not the one for horse does he need glasses? for a moment of two. Then Ryuichi is speaking directly at the communicator, his Japanese is - as usual - a little slurry as if he is permanently drunk. ]

So I got a bunch of stuff written up but not really have the melody all worked out. That's okay though cuz that's how music works - you don't just throw stuff out and expect it to suddenly be all ready to go! Unless you are really that desperate to sing something like winning a bet or something!

Anyways, I think this work, what does everyone else think? LET ME READ IT TO YOU!


A small bird with closed eyes says "Even like this I can still fly"
Because straining its ears, if it listens to the wind, it has nothing to fear.

A raising voice in the news says "Lies are wrong"
A kitten with hidden claws holds its belly and laughs.

Knowing the meaning of loving, while I get frightened of loving.
Even if it's unnatural, without the filthiness of my heart
I can't walk now.

Seeing dreams about you.
But still tomorrow will come.
But still...

I will be able to get to somewhere.
But still tomorrow will come.

In the dream known as "Eternity", feeling giddy,
I covet for the rotten fruit.
Taking the way to survive and throwing it away,
I wait for tomorrow.

I guess that's it!


[ooc; OOPS! I forgot to mention that the lyrics are from the song Chaos by the band SCARECROW. It is a pretty song even though the words are a bit bleak. I feel that it fits with how things are in the city right now. ]

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ First there's the sound of a beat, probably a foot tapping hard against an empty can. Then a guitar joins in - nothing too great in the line of guitar playing, but it is obvious that whoever is playing is using the music as background for the singer, who is going over the words, changing the melody, changing the words. And then it stops, there's a sound of paper cracking, and then the song is back. ]

nijuuhachi-ji no yoru wo kiritoru
mado wo toshimetara hajimaru
ichido shikaketara tokenai wana wo
ma ni awanai PROTECTION

tatoeba kimi wo kizutsuketai
jiorama ni tojikomete
tataitemita tte sakendetemo
kikoenai sa PREDILECTION

iki mo dekinai
joukyou shita de wa
sugureta ai wo musaboru

can't get enough
kotoba yori mo motto
don't let me down
tashika ni misete hoshii
one more night
kusuka ni kizutsuita
kimi wo mitsumeru me sono saki ni ...

[ The music stops and there's a soft sigh. ]

Are we done yet, Tohma? Can we go back to the room and near the fire?



[ooc; Predilection comes from the Gravitation Song Story and is a Nittle Grasper/Ryuichi song. For anyone in the music audition log/auditorium, Ryuichi decided to work on his own song, which this is a piece of, so feel free to have heard him singing it/commentlog or whatever!]

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a rustle of paper and then you hear Ryuichi singing. ]

yasashi sa yori tsuyoi chikara wo
suketa ai ni kanjiteru
doko demo yuku nan ni demo naru
kimi no yami ni furesasete

OFF kara ON ni kiri kaeta machi ga yoru wo te guri yoseru
akke nai kyou no ketsumatsu wo tsuki tsukete

So what does everyone think so far? It sounds good, right? Course, we'll need to work on the arrangement first to really play it... So back to work we go! If you wanna hear more, you'll have to wait until we're done, but I can sing other stuff.


[OOC; The song's by a nice little J-pop group called Iceman.]

Anyone have a request? I'm dying of boredom here and no one has blown up a building or tried kidnapping Shuichi and myself and there's no American manager waving guns around or any keyboardist being his fluffy evil self to keep me occupied.

How many people are doing a band thing here? I haven't heard or seen one around, though I have heard a couple people over these fake phones doing stuff like that. Wasn't this place suppose to have one? I was just wondering...

[ video ]

[ And here is Ryuichi standing on a stage, wearing a jean jacket over a black tank top and some torn jeans, his hair a stylish mess and his grin as wide as ever. The stuffed rabbit he takes with him everywhere is not in sight, but there is pink fuzz surrounding the camera - Kumagoro is holding the communicator. Ryuichi waves, and then goes down in a full split, springs back up, does a flip, lands in a split and comes back up. He jumps a couple times, spins around and falls flat on his stomach, laughing, as he presses his nose against the camera. ]

See Kumagoro? The stage is too safe. Pfft!

[ He springs back to his feet and stretches, eyes closing and fingers reaching up. Holding that position, he runs through a couple of voice exercises, all of them pitch perfect even with the way he's stretching out his rib cage. Then dropping his arms, he twists, sings a few bars of 'Sleepless Beauty' then he goes off into 'Ava Maria' for a few short verses, before sticking his tongue out and looking up at the ceiling. ]

Okay, so the acoustics are a little wobbly, but it'll be okay. Now, to figure out what to do for lights if it's dark...

[ He wanders off-camera, muttering in Japanese. The camera times out after a minute or two. ]

[BZZZZZZZZZZT!]

[ voice | English ]

OW! It bit me! Why did it bit me? Did I shake it too hard? That's so uncool. Seriously uncool!

SO! I've got an awesome idea. A seriously awesome idea that we should've thought of before! We've got people who are sort of musicians even if there are a couple sillies... and lot of them are like posting stuff over these things, right? So why don't we like get together and have like a weekly show or something and play it over the air together. It would at least help those of us without instruments borrow some from the others without having to like use them to hit monsters when borrowing them or something stupid like that. It makes sense! We could do like a radio show or something!

It sounds cool in my head... So, what does everyone think?